Isotopic and proteomic evidence for communal stability at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Jericho in the Southern Levant.

ABSTRACT: As one of the key, long-term occupied sites in the Southern Levant, Jericho was one of the most important early Neolithic centres to witness social and economic changes associated with the domestication of plants and animals. This study applies strontium (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr), oxygen (δ¹⁸O) and carbon (δ¹³C) isotope analyses to the enamel of 52 human teeth from Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) layers of Jericho to directly study human diet and mobility and investigate the degree of consolidation and the flexibility of social organization of Jericho society in the PPN period. The results indicate only two non-local individuals out of the 44 sampled inhabitants identified by strontium isotope analysis and are consistent with the presence of a largely sedentary co

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10542335 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature